Witching hour
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@Jen exactly the same age as your little one and ours sometimes starts at 5.30 as well! Let’s hope in a couple of weeks it’s better 🤞xx
Following, LO is 5 weeks
Mine @4weeks forgets how to take her bottle due to frustration and cries her eye out 🤦🏻♀️
@Jen mine is 7 weeks and the crying seems to be worse this week 😂
Mine is hit and miss with his witching hour. I've found most of the time it's because he's overtired and so I have to keep trying things to settle him on repeat
My baby is 8 weeks tomorrow and it has started to lessen a little but I've read it doesn't really begin to end until 3 months.
I mean when baby is fussy from 6pm to 2am, is it still called witching hour? 😅...she is only fine on our chest during that time,and struggle to finish a feed
It’s been a few weeks since it started and she’s almost 8 weeks now. Can’t get a nice evening routine going anymore. Me and my partner have to go to bed separately 😢.
Same here, baby is nearly 7 weeks. Hoping it eases soon! We find that either cluster feeding or a change of scene like a warm bath helps. Basically find myself just killing time / waiting for bedtime 😅🙈 xxx
@Marie in the same boat 😂 fine all day then all evening he’s fussy, took me 3 and a half hours to finish my dinner today 😂
My LO is 3-4 weeks and we find a day time and evening walk helps I’m pram or sling. Otherwise she gets overstimulated and refuses to sleep although she’s shattered 😫
@Ellie last night that was something😪, and this morning only wanted to sleep on me ...we got this, that won't last forever , I hope 😅
@Marie my boy only really wants to ever sleep on me
@Katie oh that must be exhausting. Even if it's normal, they are used to us, Keep trying putting him down. My girl was doing well in her cot until recently, and I don't rest well when we co-sleep. When you think you have a win, they regressed🙃
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Yesssss. This! It’s exhausting. I get the nighttime dread. It’s always when I’m most exhausted myself too and just want to sleep! Solidarity x
Is everyone’s babies completely inconsolable in the evenings? I feel so bad that I can’t help him, nothing makes him stop until we get him down for bed when he’s so exhausted from crying. Feels like my baby is broken but he’s not like this in the day
@Jen oh don't feel bad and ni he is not broken. He can be overtired, overstimulated, or gassy, have you try a warm bath, that might help him relax. You can also try putting him in the pram, sometimes change of room helps, dimmed the light. Hopefully it's just a phase...my girl strangely calm down when we go up or down the stairs
Everyday from 8pm to about 11pm she’s inconsolable. Sometimes we think we’ve found something that helps, but it never works second time around. We’ve tried moving her nap time so she wakes up from her evening nap at 7pm and still she cries. She’s 7 weeks now and we’ve been going through this for the last three.
@Dilara I'm exactly the same. Nothing works and it's exhausting, all he does is scream at me
I actually had my 6 week check today and mentioned it to the doctor and he said it’s just a fussy stage that they eventually grow out of but all normal behaviours for this age. Nice to know you’re not alone in dealing with it when 5/6pm comes around!! Xx
Yes although ours can start earlier than 6 🫠. He’s 5.5 weeks and I’ve heard from friends that crying peaks at 6 weeks and from 7 weeks it gets better. So I’m praying that’s right